In recent months we have been working on remaking some of our classic pre mid 1950's jackets, the new range carries the D Lewis Ltd label while the jackets themselves are made to very accurate standards.

Lewis Leathers is currently hosting an exhibition of photographs by Marcus Ross, Editor-in-Chief of Jocks & Nerds website and soon to be magazine. Marcus opted for Lewis Leathers Wearers as his theme and shot a series of photographs here early last December (see earlier blog post).

Lewis Leathers has teamed up with Triumph Motorcycles to produce a range of jackets based on two different styles, the Whitfield and the Rathbone.

 First appearing in 1973, the designers at Lewis Leathers took the Sportsman back to the drawing board and introduced the Super Sportsman as an update of the earlier design.

The Jim Jones Review have been a favourite at Lewis Leathers for some time now and travelling back from Paris yesterday we picked up the latest issue of France's excellent Rock et Folk magazine at the Gare du Nord...

The latest TV and Cinema advertisement for Stella Artois features a Lewis Leathers Super Sportsman jacket,Cick below to see the advertisement:

People often ask us why we use the Aviakit logo as aninternal label in our jackets and what its significance is to Lewis Leathers asa company.The answer lies in our association with flying clothing andkit in the first quarter of the 20th Century, looking at theearliest advertisements we have in the LL archive, it can be noted as early as1930 that the name AVIAKIT is used as the Telegram address as can be seen at the foot of the advertisement on the left.At around the same time D Lewis Ltd produced woven labelswith the Aviakit brand name, the earliest type has the wording Shrunk BDA‘Rigmel’ below –which presumably means that they were first developed for theCivilian all-cotton Summer flying helmets featured in adverts of the time and werethen later used for the leather versions, D Lewis Ltd labels can also be seenin helmets from the same period.